Light and Shadow Dancing
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| Larry Wolf, Moments (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, Moments, 2021 |
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| Larry Wolf, Moments, 2021 |
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| Larry Wolf, Moments (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, Moments (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, Moments (2021) |
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Moments
Thursday, February 25, 2021
What The Camera Saw - August 2000
At a summer-long meditation retreat in the Rockies.
Now, February 2021, reflecting back, an accordion-fold zine.
Flashes ...
surprising ...
catching myself …
my hand …
see …
what’s real …
I don’t recognize that hand …
foreign …
strange ...
attached to the rest of me
I wonder ...
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| Larry Wolf, What The Camera Saw (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, What The Camera Saw (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, What The Camera Saw (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, What The Camera Saw (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, What The Camera Saw (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, What The Camera Saw (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, What The Camera Saw (2021) |
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| Larry Wolf, What The Camera Saw (2021) |
Briefly, but no longer, available on Etsy.
Friday, January 15, 2021
Muddy Water Becomes Clear
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| Larry Wolf at Wisdom 2.0 (February 2017) |
The glass of water in the photo has mud at the bottom which has settled over the course of a meditation retreat. The critical step is to stop stirring, allowing the dirt to naturally settle. So too with our minds.
I wrote about the retreat on my work blog back in February 2017. The need to combine stillness and action continues.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Kīlauea - January 2021
Kīlauea is the youngest and southeastern most volcano on the Island of Hawai‘i.
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| Double rainbow extending over the lava lake in Halemaʻumaʻu crater - January 6, 2021 |
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| Kīlauea summit eruption continues from the west vent - January 2, 2021 |
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| Thermal image of the lava lake at the summit of Kīlauea - January 7, 2021 |
With thanks to the staff of the US Geological Survey.
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain
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| Lynette Yiadom-Boakye A Passion Like No Other (2012) Collection of Lonti Ebers © Lynette Yiadom-Boakye |
NY Times: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Subjects Are All in Her Head
“Going from the sense of trying to illustrate an idea, to allowing the paint to bring something to life, or thinking about painting as a language in itself — that was the major shift”
Tate: Exhibition Guide
"I learned how to paint from looking at painting and I continue to learn from looking at painting. In that sense, history serves as a resource. But the bigger draw for me is the power that painting can wield across time.
"I work from scrapbooks, I work from images I collect, I work from life a little bit, I seek out the imagery I need. I take photos. All of that is then composed on the canvas. [This lets me] really think through the painting, to allow these to be paintings in the most physical sense, and build a language that didn’t feel as if I was trying to take something out of life and translate it into painting, but that actually allowed the paint to do the talking."
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/lynette-yiadom-boakye/exhibition-guide
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Further Readings on Homosexuals, Holocaust and History
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| Unknown Photographer, Prisoners in the Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany (1938), US National Archive of Foreign Records |
Who are these people?What was their experience before and after this photograph was taken?
Have they told their own stories?
How have others used this as part of their artistic process?
More Books
[These are listed in the order in which I read them, with the most recently read book first. "Read" is a relative term, for example, Homosexuelle Männer im KZ Sachsenhause is 378 pages of German. I used Google Translate to read the essay on Richard Grune. Perhaps I'll tackle more from that in the future. This book is completely on topic for the photo.]
Harlan Greene: The German Officer's Boy (2005) WorldCat
Stephen Koch: Hitler's Pawn, The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust (2019) WorldCat
Andreas Sternweiler and Joachim Müller, editors: Homosexuelle Männer im KZ Sachsenhausen / Homosexual Men in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (2000) WorldCat
Jurgen Lemke, editor: Gay voices from East Germany / Ganz Normal Anders (1991) WorldCat
Ken Setterington: Branded by the Pink Triangle (2013) WorldCat
Lannon Reed: Behold a Pale Horse, a novel of homosexuals in the Nazi holocaust (1985) WorldCat
Marc David Baer: German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (2020) WorldCat
Judy Chicago: Holocaust Project: From Darkness Into Light (1993) WorldCat
Berel Lang: Primo Levi, The Matter of A Life (2013) WorldCat
Isabel Wilkerson: Caste (2020) WorldCat
Thank You to Libraries
Several of these books were borrowed from the Chicago Public Library and the Gerber Hart Library and Archives.
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Meditation Redux - Seminal Works
Revisiting Teachers and Teachings
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| Larry Wolf, Personal Buddhist History (2020) |
I'm looking at the journey that got me here, reexamining some of the stepping stones of my journey with Buddhism. The ones here have survived, in some form, on my book shelf going back to 1970 with Siddhartha. The year before, I read Maugham's The Razor's Edge during the summer I turned 18. Others by Hesse (Demian, Steppenwolf) were read a couple of years earlier in high school.
The books are roughly in the order they read. As I revisit them over the next several months, I'm sure other titles will surface, ones I have and ones to track down. Some of these may get commentary. For now, here's the list.
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Suzuki Roshi - Zen Mind Beginners Mind
Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (not here because my copy was falling apart), Myth of Freedom, Shambhala
Jack Kornfield - A Path With Heart
Thich Nhat Hanh - Peace Is Every Step
Bernie Glassman - Instructions to the Cook, Bearing Witness
Pema Chodron - The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are
Clark Strand - Wooden Bowl
Sue Bender - Everyday Sacred
Shantideva - The Way of the Bodhisattva
Koshein Payley Ellison & Matt Weingast (eds) - Awake at the Bedside
Larry Yang - Awakening Together
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche - In Love With The World
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